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June 24, 2014

Summer, with its warm sunshine, light breezes, and hot air balloon festivals, seems a grand time to host a wedding in even grander style by surrounding your day in the whimsical, dreamy theme of soaring the skies in hot air balloons!

Is there a better way to start a new life with your love than imagining sailing up and through the clouds on a glorious adventure? And it fits in with an outdoor wedding in a most beautiful way, creating memories you’ll never forget.

A hot-air balloon themed wedding also allows for you to match almost any summer colors that you’ve chosen for the day. With a myriad of ideas, there is so much that can be done to mirror the relaxing feel of flight while giving you and your guests a gorgeous wedding that is quite photogenic.

Here are a few ideas using hot air balloons to get you started, just click on the headlines in each section to see the websites and details:

From Flax and Twine blog at the link, they show you step-by-step how to create your own paper hot-air balloons that are light as air just like in the photo! They used for a Mother’s luncheon, but it doesn’t take much to change up the words and use your own colors. You can hang these from an indoor ceiling or on ropes or strings of light hung from tree to tree in an outdoor wedding.

There are so many fun things that you can do with your dessert table if you use this timeless theme. Hot-air balloon shaped cookies, cake-pops, colorful dime-store candy, and cupcakes decorated to look like clouds can create a fun, exciting feeling. At the link, you’ll find some party ideas utilizing the theme to help you mix and match your thoughts, whether simple or extravagant.

If you opt for hot air balloons to be your centerpiece such as in this beautiful photo, you’ll be on your way to a beautiful wedding full of glamour. You can even DIY centerpieces yourself with balloons and netting or for lighter approach, use paper lanterns! Use small baskets, adorning with rope or fish net and decorate with flowers or put something inside the baskets on your table, like disposable cameras.

Of course, there are many other ideas for creating a wedding that will soar above the rest, you only need to open your imagination. Use hot air balloons on invitations, have a life-size basket and back drop at the wedding for photo ops, give small hot air balloon favors such as coasters adorned with their art or photographs, and use light colors in dramatic fashion to make your event feel light and airy.

HideAway Country Inn, a premiere bed and breakfast located in mid Ohio, offers lovely weddings with a variety of packages to fit anyone’s needs. We have five outdoor, scenic locations to host your wedding, such as under our pergola or in our garden.

A photo from our grounds before a scheduled flight from HideAway Inn!

We’d love help you construct your hot-air balloon themed wedding (or theme of your choice of course)! But if you are hot-air balloon crazed, we even offer hot-air balloon rides, scheduled in advance and weather permitting. What a great way to extend your event into a honeymoon and light up the sky with your new love, riding light as air above the fields and streams. Call us at (800) 570-8233 and let us assist you in planning the wedding and honeymoon of your dreams.

Photo Credit: First hot air balloon wedding photo from Pinterest of KTDesign